Infrastructure — Mining and Validator Scoring

TL;DR

ACI scores mining and validator providers on unit economics, reliability, counterparty risk, transparency, and scalability.

Why This Exists

An investment committee evaluating a Bitcoin mining fund or staking operation needs to know whether the yield is sustainable or dependent on conditions that could change overnight. Mining economics shift with difficulty adjustments, energy costs, and halving cycles. Validator yields depend on network participation rates and slashing risk.

Traditional credit frameworks have no category for these risks. ACI provides a structured, repeatable scoring methodology that translates mining and validator economics into the same 0-100 risk scale used across all other ACI modules.

How It Works

Five criteria, each scored 0-100 and weighted:

Final Score = (Unit Economics x 0.30) + (Reliability x 0.25) + (Counterparty Risk x 0.20) + (Transparency x 0.15) + (Scalability x 0.10)

Worked example: A mining operation with efficient hardware (Unit Economics = 78), 99.5% uptime (Reliability = 85), self-custodied BTC (Counterparty = 80), monthly hashrate reports (Transparency = 70), and capacity to double hashrate within 6 months (Scalability = 65).

Score = (78 x 0.30) + (85 x 0.25) + (80 x 0.20) + (70 x 0.15) + (65 x 0.10) = 23.4 + 21.25 + 16.0 + 10.5 + 6.5 = 77.65 → 78 (MEDIUM)

What You See in the Platform

The Infrastructure module appears in the Yield Board alongside BTC Collateral Lending. Each provider card shows the composite score, risk band, hashrate or stake size, and unit economics tier.

Where to Go Next

Read Market Neutral for non-directional strategy scoring, or DeFi Stablecoins for protocol risk.

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